Hi All,
Being VERY closely involved in Wikiwijs within the Kennisnet
Foundation (my employer) I can only agree with effeietsanders
statement. Things are often not as NC as they seem :)
The wikiwijs project is still taking shape but is founded on a few
guiding principles
1) Be as Open as
Hello,
Maybe this is interesting for Wikimedians too, certainly for Wikibookians.
The Dutch ministry of education is going to set up Wikiwijs, a project to
develop provide open and free school books or teaching materials to Dutch
schools. In the elections the parties promised to abolish parents'
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello,
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The project manager of the organisation of Dutch high schools gave me a very
striking reason against a license that allows commercial use: Most of the
teachers want to teach with the help of ordinary
Ziko wrote:
Nearly all already existing initiatives for open teaching materials use the
CC-NC-SA, the Creative Commons license that prohibits commercial use. I was
told that you cannot explain to teachers why others should have the right to
commercially exploit their work...
What a great news!
effe iets anders wrote:
2009/5/19 Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com
Correction, it was actually mentioned that the Wikiwijs project was
intending to use the CC-BY license. And I'm in conversation with at least
one other organisation that intended to use NC, but might change their
Dedalus wrote:
Ziko wrote:
Nearly all already existing initiatives for open teaching materials use the
CC-NC-SA, the Creative Commons license that prohibits commercial use. I was
told that you cannot explain to teachers why others should have the right to
commercially exploit their work...
